Angiolo Tarocchi

I am an italian musician with expertise in classical and jazz music as composer, arranger, conductor, double bass player, producer and educator. My musical education includes Specialist Certificate in Jazz Composition and Arranging (Berklee College of Music On-Line), MA in Double Bass (Italian Conservatory of Brescia) and BA in Electronic Composition (Italian Conservatory of Milano)

I am an italian musician with expertise in classical and jazz music as composer, arranger, conductor, double bass player, producer and educator. My musical education includes Specialist Certificate in Jazz Composition and Arranging (Berklee College of Music On-Line), MA in Double Bass (Italian Conservatory of Brescia) and BA in Electronic Composition (Italian Conservatory of Milano). I was awarded the Herbie Hancock Celebrity Scholarship, Berklee College Of Music On-Line, 2016. I am currently a teaching professor in Jazz Arranging at the Piacenza Conservatory (Italy) and the principal double bass of the World Doctors Orchestra. Besides the music, I practice as a medical doctor specialized in surgical pathology, in the field of pain therapy, acupuncture and homeopathy.

Awards

Herbie Hancock Celebrity Scholarship, Berklee College Of Music On-Line, 2016.

This work is a big step forward, a turning point in higher quality in your arranger's
search, which places you among the few elected in this rare discipline in Italy
(Giorgio Gaslini)

Essentially, this large ensemble pursues feisty, big-band-style horn charts in
conjunction with pumping rhythms, variegated textures, and complex time
signatures to coincide with off-kilter themes, dashes of electronica, playful
pandemonium, and electric psychedelic persuasions (Glenn Astarita - All About
Jazz)

”Unwired is a generous investigation of some big band meandering” (Fiona Ord-
Shrimpton - All About Jazz, USA)

”Unwired, the first track that gives the name of this new album, is wrapped in a
magnetic atmosphere” (Stefano Dentice - Italia In Jazz, ITA)

”Music written and arranged in the style of a classic symphonist, between Gil
Evans and Mike Westbrooke. Modality, open forms, folk-jazz and song that are
avant-garde. Tarocchi has an incomparable taste for the sound canvas arranged in
line, sequenced or blocked” (Davide Ielmini - Musica Magazine, ITA)

”This work is, on the whole, an ambitious and fearless effort that deals also with
the european contemporary classical music writing” (Luca Cerchiari - Il Giornale del
Popolo, Lugano CH)

”Tarocchi mixes in his music the Jazz style with the contemporary musical idiom in
an expressive equilibrium” (Alessandro Rigolli - la Gazzetta di Parma, ITA)

”Unwired combines big band contemporary jazz and contemporary composed music
in an exciting album which demands to the listener to unravel all five pieces of
composite gems” (Rinus Van Der Heijden - Jazznu, NL)